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From the mind that brought you "ribbons on a direwolf" now comes: Jewelry on a Dragon.

Coming this Dream of Spring

RACHEL ZEGLER at the ‘Snow White’ press event in Tokyo, Japan, dressed in a custom Paolo Sebastian gown inspired by the daggered heart box motif from the original 1937 Disney film (5th March 2025)

attributing all failings of house targaryen to 'rot' they have inherited from their valyrian ancestors, to me, feels one metaphor away from interpreting generations of one family as ontologically predisposed to ruin. i understand the intent here is to speak of the general decline of their monarchical power, but dynastic declines don't happen in a vacuum because of there being something specifically, inherently wrong with one family. they're all actors within a violently misogynistic, feudal society. this obviously isn't an extraordinary observation, and discussions involving other noble houses get this, yet when it comes to the targaryens everything has to be chalked up to 'valyrian supremacy'. sorry but i don't think this achieves anything beyond simply moralising their behaviour in itself without recognising how it has been influenced and enabled by westerosi society.

You really got down to the core of what bothers me with how the fandom discusses this topic. Instead of what's actually happening, which is this behaviour being normalized in their society it's treated like an individual's predatory behaviour/sexual perversion when the former is just so much more fucked up.

i hate “pedophilia” in almost all cases it’s used in but it’s especially frustrating to me here because the culturally normative eroticization of young women is not an individual pathology but a master key to westerosi society’s particular system of gendered subjugation. men are really into pubescent virgin girls because of a social system where the total control of women’s reproductive capacity and thus sexuality by men, fathers and then husbands, is the foundation of the ordering hierarchy of a society obsessed with passing on property and power through the male line. young girls are idealized erotic objects because they are “untouched” by other men and easier to achieve various forms of emotional mastery over to make easier the social mastery that is integral to uncontested patriarchal succession by blood; the social mastery makes emotional mastery inevitable; that social and emotional mastery means that young women are available to be used sexually by men without regards for their own wishes or agency or sexual fulfillment. its feminism 101 shit and frameworks like “pedophilia” discard it to make it about individual creeps. it’s frustrating in modern contexts too; the secret to csa is largely not the aberrant desire for children but that the domination of children by adults is still a structuring hierarchy of society and that this is processed erotically and the subordination of children is both used by people for unethical sexual satisfaction and that sexual violence is used to further subordinate children.

"I have lots of wishes, but my favorite one is to be an artist in Paris and to do fine pictures and to be the best painter in the world."

"That's what you want too, isn't it, Jo? To be a famous writer?"

"Yes, but it sounds so crass when she says it."

@pscentral event 35: parallels

↳ jo and amy march in little women (2019), dir. greta gerwig

Big cousin Lu Ten helping the kids on a hard level

I like to think that he was a lot like his dad, spending time with them and showering 'em with affection.

we need to crush the yaoi empire one day this cannot continue

The Queen and her Scarlet Shadow

Ginger-ness

DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW WHAT VAN ECK'S PROBLEM IS??